William Boston

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Connecticut
Time Imprisoned:
28 Days
Support
Anti-War Anti-Nuclear Catholic Worker Movement
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Biography

William Boston was a house painter and peace worker living in New Haven, Connecticut at the time of Trident II Plowshares. No further sourceable biographical detail was found.

Separate actual custody episodes

Complete relevant pages were rendered and visually reviewed in NR012, NR019, NR022, NR027, NR035 and NR043, pages 1 and 6. Forecasts are not releases. Portrait searches returned unrelated police, journalism and music namesakes without an identity bridge; none installed.

Contemporary 1986 custody evidence

The Trident II Plowshares update explicitly reports Bill Boston (William Boston), John Pendleton and Leo Schiff in the release group that physically left Rhode Island prison August 23, 1986. This confirms the endpoint of the existing October 1985 sentence stay, not the separate October 1984 pretrial detention. Admission remains month precision; no exact total is computed from it. Frank Panopoulos’s October 17 date in the next clause was still a forecast and is not assigned to this release group.

The Nuclear Resister No. 41, September 18, 1986, original PDF page 8 (printed 7).

Cases

Charges: Malicious damage to property (Trident II Plowshares action at Electric Boat Quonset Point)
Sentenced: Oct 18, 1985
Incarcerated: October 1985
Released: Aug 23, 1986
Sentence: One year and a $500 fine Actual physical release August 23, 1986 confirmed by the September 18 Nuclear Resister; the month-precision admission is unchanged.
Judge: John Bourcier
Convicted: Yes
Charges: USS Michigan commissioning peace protest, Groton; September 1982 initial detention
Arrested: Sep 11, 1982
Incarcerated: Sep 11, 1982
Released: Sep 13, 1982
Sentence: Original NR012, physical page 8, individually names William Boston among the jailed September 11 demonstrators released September 13. This is initial detention, not a separately established prison sentence. No later penalty inferred.
Charges: Disorderly conduct and malicious mischief, Quonset Point Electric Boat peace protest; initial August 1983 arrest
Arrested: Aug 9, 1983
Released: August 1983
Sentence: Original NR019, physical page 4, identifies Bill Boston in the August 9 arrest and reports recognizance release before the August 16 arraignment. Actual discharge is August MONTH only: August 9 is an earliest-bound placeholder, not proof of same-day release. Exact initial admission day is not established. Later renewed confinement is separate.
Charges: Renewed custody for fine refusal following Quonset Point protest disposition
Incarcerated: Dec 9, 1983
Released: Dec 12, 1983
Sentence: Original NR022, physical page 6, identifies renewed December 9 confinement and December 12 release following payment by another person. The August initial arrest is not treated as continuous detention through December. No additional criminal-arrest day manufactured.
Charges: Trident II Plowshares malicious property damage; initial pretrial detention
Arrested: Oct 1, 1984
Incarcerated: Oct 1, 1984
Released: Oct 24, 1984
Sentence: Original NR027, physical page 2, reports all five Trident II defendants detained from October 1 and released at their October 24 hearing, including Boston. This pretrial episode is distinct from the October 1985 sentence-era confinement; no continuous intervening custody is asserted.

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